A new study from researchers at Ohio State University, found that adults who skip breakfast run the risk of losing out on the crucial nutrients found abundantly in morning meals. Missing out on the calcium in milk, vitamin C in fruit and the fiber, vitamins, and minerals found in fortified cereals left adults deficient in those nutrients for the entire day.
For the study, the team took data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and the sample used for this study included 30,889 adults aged 19 and older. As per the findings, people who skipped breakfast tended to have a very different nutritional profile than those who did eat a morning meal.
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The research suggested that breakfast skippers were more likely to eat added sugars, carbohydrates and fat over the course of the day and tended to have an overall poorer quality diet due to more snacking. The biggest differences in consumption were found in folate, calcium, iron and several vitamins.